Quantitative Approaches to Distribution Logistics and Supply Chain Management

By: Andreas Klose (Editor), M. Gracia Speranza (Editor), Luk N. Van Wassenhove (Editor)

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Increasing customer needs, the globalization of markets and the evolution of e-commerce add to the complexity of logistic processes. In today's business, it is well understood that an effective management of logistic processes is impossible without the use of computer-based tools and quantitative methods. This book presents in a systematic way quantitative approaches to distribution logistics and supply chain management. The main orientation of the book is towards practical problem solving, and numerous case studies and practical applications are presented. The topics covered include: supply chain management, revers logistics, e-commerce, facility location and network planning, vehicle routing, warehousing, inventory control.

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Examining Supply Chains from Practice	p. 3
Valuing Time in Make-to-stock Manufacturing: Calculating the Limits of Time-based Competition	p. 19
Internal Pricing in Supply Chains	p. 37
Closed-loop Supply Chains	p. 47
Extended Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimising Economic, Logistic and Environmental Performance	p. 61
A Behavioral Approach for Logistics System Analysis and Design: A Reverse Logistics Case	p. 75
Performance of MRP in Product Recovery Systems with Demand, Return and Leadtime Uncertainties	p. 99
One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector	p. 115
The Logistics Behind the Enter Click	p. 131
Distribution Planning with Specific Delivery Time Restrictions for the Handling of Electronic Customer Orders in Food/Non-Food Retail Trade	p. 149
An Analysis of a Combinatorial Auction	p. 163
The Practice of Distribution Network Planning: Coping with Shortcomings in Important Data Quality	p. 179
A Greedy Heuristic for a Three-level Multi-period Single-sourcing Problem	p. 191
Combinatorial Optimisation Problems of the Assignment Type and a Partitioning Approach	p. 215
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery	p. 249
The Application of a Vehicle Routing Model to a Waste Collection Problem: Two Case Studies	p. 269
Strategic Vehicle Routing Problems in Practice - A pure Software Problem or a Problem Requiring Scientific Advice? Routing Problems of Daily Deliveries to the Same Customers	p. 287
Design of a 2-Stations Automated Guided Vehicle System	p. 309
On-line versus Off-line Control with Multi-load Vehicles	p. 331
Average Costs versus Net Present Value: A Comparison for Multi-source Inventory Models	p. 359
Safety Stocks in Capacity-constrained Production Systems	p. 379
Approximations for the Waiting Time in (s, nQ)-Inventory Models for Different Types of Consolidation Policies	p. 395
List of Contributors	p. 419
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